n the ghastly year of 1785, notorious criminal and highwayman James Cliffton ambushed brothers Peter and Henry as they left a local pub one dark afternoon. After robbing them of their meagre helping of coins, the villain bludgeoned Peter so savagely that he succumbed to a slow, painful death just two days later, with his brother Henry by his side.
James was soon apprehended at the very inn where the brothers had been, caught red-handed with their blood on his cuffs! Convicted and sentenced to death at Norwich Castle just three days later, he continued to protest his innocence. His lifeless body was returned to the scene of his crime and displayed in a gibbet 30 feet in the air, remaining there for a ghastly 25 years! It became a rite of passage for local lads to hurl stones at Cliffton’s skeleton until parts of it broke away. Oooo, how gruesome!
In more recent years, chilling reports of chains rattling and low, mournful moans have echoed through the still evenings. Are these the haunting cries of James Cliffton, still enduring his ghostly punishment in that eerie gibbet?
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